I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
Hitler’s cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which authorized the sterilization of individuals suffering...
Governments from the top fail as often as those from the bottom; and every great failure brings a sad social reaction, thousands and millions of helpless men laying down their lives in the unhappy pro...
Goebbels was known for his wit; Martha, for a time, considered him charming. Infectious and delightful, eyes sparkling, voice soft, his speech witty and light, it is difficult to remember his cruelty,...
German forces in Belgium entered quiet towns and villages, took civilian hostages, and executed them to discourage resistance. In the town of Dinant, German soldiers shot 612 men, women, and children....
Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous—entirely too hopeful—to be true.
Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that would effectively deprive Jews of their citizenship and all civil rights. German...
Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly. … So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal...
Contrary to the predictions of many students of international problems, I feel fairly certain that we shall not have war in the near future.
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship
But within a week, the brush fire gusted into a firestorm, spiking fears, resurrecting animosities, triggering alliances and understandings, and setting long-laid plans in motion.
But one thing was quite clear… he wrote. [B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually,
But Hitler’s government was neither civil nor coherent, and the nation lurched from one inexplicable moment to another.
Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. This alone began...
Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath.
Another inventor, J. B. McComber, representing the Chicago-Tower Spiral-Spring Ascension and Toboggan Transportation Company, proposed a tower with a height of 8,947 feet, nearly nine times the height...
Among a list of measures effective for inducing vomiting, she included: Injections of tobacco into the anus through a pipe stem.
Would have breached a fundamental maritime code, the cruiser rules, or prize law, established in the nineteenth century to govern warfare against civilian shipping. Obeyed ever since by all seagoing p...
Through the hull—the rush of water past a prow, the thrum of propellers.